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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	james_n	king_n	scot_n	3,888	5	9.6692	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33333	A looking-glass for persecutors containing multitudes of examples of God's severe, but righteous judgments, upon bloody and merciless haters of His children in all times, from the beginning of the world to this present age : collected out of the sacred Scriptures, and other ecclesiastical writers, both ancient and modern / by Sam. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1674 (1674)	Wing C4541; ESTC R12590	51,164	142

in Prison And God paid him home in his own coin For according to his Imprecation his Body rottted away by piece-meal till he dyed 133. One Lever of Brightwel in Barkshire jeeringly said That he saw that ill-favoured Knave Latimer when he was burned at Oxford and that he had Teeth like an Horse But the Lord suffered not this profane scoff to go unpunished For about that very same Hour wherein Lever spake those words his Son hanged himself 134. All ages have cause to admire and adore the Exemplary Judgments of God poured out upon Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester in Queen Marys days who upon the day wherein Reverend Latimer and Learned Ridley were to be burnt at Oxford though some great Peers came to dine with him that day yet would not sit down to dinner till one of his Servants about four a Clock in the Afternoon coming Post from Oxford brought word that Execution was done upon them Then did he hast to Dinner and was very merry but ere he had eaten many bits a sudden stroke of Gods hand fell upon him so that he was carried immediately to his Bed in which he continued for fifteen days in intollerable anguish and torments rotting above ground during all which time he could void nothing that he received neither by Stool nor Urine his Tongue also hung out of his mouth swoln and black and so he languished and pined away in great anguish and misery 135. King James the Fifth of Scotland by the instigation of the Popish Clergy was a great Persecutor of the Truth that then brake forth in that Kingdom and for that end he gave Commission to Sir James Hamilton natural Brother to the Earl of Arran who was his Treasurer to call and convent all that were suspected of Heresie and to inflict upon them the punishment which after tryal they should be found to deserve In Execution of which Commissiion he was most fierce and cruel not sparing some that were of his near Kindred But when he was in his greatest heighth and made it his work to suppress the Gospel one of his own Friends whom he pursued upon the account of Religion accused him of Treason and notwithstanding the mediation of the Popish Clergy for him as their greatest Patron he was arraigned condemned executed and quartered in the streets of Edenburg This King James also was heard to say that none of that way should expect any favour at his hands nay nor his own Sons if they should be found guilty But shortly after War breaking forth with England he found his Nobility averse to those Incursions which he intended to make into England which much vexed him These thoughts and some fearful Visions which he had by Night terrified him exceedingly For at Linlithgow on a night as he slept it seemed to him that Thomas Scot Justice Clerk came unto him with a company of Devils crying Wo worth the day that ever I knew thee or thy Service For serving thee against God and his Servants I am now adjudged to Hell torments Hereupon awaking he called for Lights and told his Servants what he had heard and seen The next morrow by the light of day news was brought him of the death of the said Justice Clerk which fell out just at the same time when the King had this Vision and almost in the same manner For he dyed in great horror often reiterating those words By the righteous Judgment of God I am condemned And this manner of his death answering so exactly to the Kings Dream made it the more terrible The King also had another Dream in the same place a few nights after which did more affright him Whilest he lay sleeping he thought that Sir James Hamilton aforesaid came unto him with a naked Sword in his Hand and therewith cut off both his Arms threatening to return within a short time and to deprive him of his life With this he awaked and as he lay musing what this Dream should import news was brought him of the death of his two Sons James and Arthur the one dying at S. Andrews the other at Strivling at one and the very same hour The next year which was 1542. being overwhelmed with grief he dyed at Falkland in the two and thirtieth year of his Age. A little before he dyed word was brought him that his Queen was delivered of a Daughter whereupon he brake forth into a Passion saying It came with a Lass meaning the Crown and will go with a Lass. Fie upon it 136. One Friar Campbell in Scotland did bitterly rail upon that man of God Mr. Patrick Hamilton whilest he was burning at S. Andrews to whom Mr. Hamilton said with much earnestness Thou wicked man thou knowest the contrary and hast sometime made a Profession of the truth I appeal thee to answer it before the Judgment Seat of Christ A few days after Campbel fell sick and in great horror of Conscience dyed distracted 137. Anno 1568. There was in Breda one Peter Coulogue a godly man who by his Popish Adversaries was cast into Prison and his Maid-servant daily carried him his Food confirming and comforting him out of the word of God as well as she was able for which they imprisoned her also Not long after Peter was put to the torment of the Rack which he endured patiently After him the Maid was fetch'd to be racked whereupon she said My Masters wherefrre will ye put me to this torture seeing I have no way offended you If it be for my Faith-sake ye need not torment me For as I was never ashamed to make a Confession thereof no more will I now be at this present before you but will if you please freely shew you my mind therein Yet for all this they would have her to the Rack whereupon she again said If I must needs suffer this pain pray you give me leave to call upon my God first This they assented to and whilest she was fervently pouring out her Soul unto God by Prayer one of the Commissioners was surprised with such fear and terror that he fell into a swoon out of which he could never be recovered by which means the poor Maid escaped racking 138. In the Reign of King Henry the Second of France there was a godly Tailor condemned to be burnt for Religion and some about the King would needs perswade him to be present and to see the Execution himself And God gave the Tailor such strength and conrage in the fire as astonished the King to behold it And the poor Tailor having espied the King in a window where he sate fixed his Eyes so stedfastly upon him as they were never off and the King was thereby constrained to leave the window and to retire into his Chamber and was so affected therewith that he confessed the shadow of the Taylor followed him whither soever he went and for many Nights after he was so terrified with the Apparitions of the Taylor that he protested with an